Laflèche, Thérèse - In: Bank of Canada Review 1997 (1997) Autumn, pp. 29-47
As a guide for the conduct of monetary policy, most central banks make use of a trend inflation index similar to that … reference index, some central banks regularly publish statistical measures of the trend rate of inflation. The method used for … temporary shocks to the inflation rate, rather than its underlying trend. In this paper, the author offers a broad survey of …